# Composition area - telnet

Christopher Unkel (cunkel@us.itd.umich.edu)
Wed, 30 Oct 1996 14:04:13 PST

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    On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Chuck Mize wrote:

    > The best case would be to upgrade the local server to support a wider array
    > of protocols such as slip or ppp.  Next thought would be to have teachers
    > dial directly in to my servers.  In both cases, the cost is prohibitive,
    > thus my question about a composition area that was a part of the moo code.
    > I would like to improve the interface for teachers who only have access to
    > telnet.  Biomoo's SMOC code looks like it may work well for this purpose.
    >
    > Any thoughts, suggestions and/or discussion would be appreciated.

    I'm guessing that the local server is a UNIX box?  Rather than have people
    use a bare-bones telnet client from that box, you can compile the
    TinyFugue client and they can use that.

    It's one option, anyway...

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